UNGRATEFUL – Daily painting 02/02/17 number per 81 – Oil on panel 20.32 cm x 24.2 cm. – So here I was today on a very hot early autumn day painting the beautiful Nuggety rocks in Maldon and wishing I was painting the sea! So I have called this painting ‘Ungrateful!’

LUNCH AT SAFFS IN CASTLEMAINE – Daily painting 24/02/17 number 77 [unfinished] – Two preparation drawings from life done at Saffs cafe and then followed by an experimental oil sketch painted from the pencils sketches